The MODFABE project will attend the AGU Fall Meeting 2022, taking place on December 12-16th, 2022 in Chicago, IL, and online everywhere. The abstract ‘Combining farmers and irrigation consortia’s perspectives on climate change to reduce risk aversion and reinforce policy making at the regional scale’ will be presented as online poster in session GC41E: Implications of Climate Change, Extreme Events, and Adaptation Potentials for Global Agriculture I. Extensive research has been carried out to deepen farmers’ awareness, perceived impacts, and associated adaptive capacity. However, less attention was paid to irrigation consortia’s experiences, even their relevance in water and farming systems management and climate change adaptation policy. This poster will present a triple focus on climate change awareness, perceived impacts, and adaptation measures and barriers, combining farmers and irrigation districts portfolios. Results from surveying 460 farmers and 13 irrigation districts managers in northern Italy will be presented to compare both narratives while clustering their profiles, identifying common patterns and driving factors influencing adaptive capacity, and testing local and regional adaptation policies. A better understanding of farmers’ and irrigation districts’ perspectives is indeed fundamental to reinforcing policy making and promoting accurate actions as it allows (i) focusing on the specific behaviours to be changed, (ii) examining the driving factors motivating those behaviours, (iii) defining and applying different interventions, and (iv) systematically evaluating the effects of these interventions on the resulting perceptions and attitudes.
